FIELDVIEW 11 Postprocessor Offers New Capabilities

By DE Editors

Intelligent Light(Rutherford, NJ) has introduced FIELDVIEW 11, the latest version of itsCFD postprocessing and visualization software, with improvements likedynamic clipping, parametric streamline seeding, and the FIELDVIEWATViewer interrogation and collaboration tool. It also provides supportfor a broad range of both 64-bit and 32-bit platforms supporting anevolving mix of hardware and operating systems.

FIELDVIEW Advanced Technology Viewer (ATViewer) is a new capabilitythat uses the latest in graphics technologies to deliver tremendousinteractive performance, even with large, unsteady datasets. Now thelargest CFD datasets can be explored at fully interactive frame rates.ATViewer uses an extract database created by FIELDVIEW that can be muchsmaller than the native dataset. It contains all surfaces, rakes, andrelevant scalar, thresholding, and vector data allowing detailed,interactive analysis of steady and transient datasets using a localworkstation.

Other features include Dynamic Clipping for the fast clearing of modeldetail to reveal airflows in specific areas of interest. Multiple cutscan be made using lines or boxes to pare away some parts of the modelto easily expose the most relevant part of the dataset, and it is fullyintegrated with the quantitative features of FIELDVIEW and with FVX forautomation. There’s also Parametric Streamline Seeding, another new setof tools to create spherical, rectangular, or circular streamlineseeding patterns in FIELDVIEW datasets.

FIELDVIEW 11 brings support for several new platforms, including AMD64Opteron, SGI Prism, MAC OS X, and more 64-bit platforms. Linux supportand testing has been expanded to provide coverage across most common32-bit and 64-bit distributions. Stereo viewing support has also beenadded to Linux versions, and HP-UX on Itanium support will soon bedelivered in a follow-up to the initial release.

For more information, visit ilight.com.